Exam question 3 · Andersen, Only a Shoemaker, part 2: Joanna leaves for Fran…
Which city did Knud select as the place in which he resolved his inner conflict and settled?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: city, Knud · What happens: select, resolve, settle, conflict · To what, where: inner conflict, place
This is exam question 3 of lesson 1016 «Andersen, Only a Shoemaker, part 2: Joanna leaves for France, and Knud wanders off to Nuremberg» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.
The question
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 city | det |
| 2 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 select | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 select | aux |
| 4 | Knud | Knud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 select | nsubj |
| 5 | select | select | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 place | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 place | det |
| 8 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 select | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 which | case |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 resolved | obl |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 resolved | nsubj |
| 12 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 place | acl:relcl |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 conflict | nmod:poss |
| 14 | inner | inner | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 conflict | amod |
| 15 | conflict | conflict | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 resolved | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 settled | cc |
| 17 | settled | settle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 resolved | conj |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 select | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | select | past · do-support | which city | as the place | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent as place=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | resolve | past | Knud | Knud's inner conflict | the place | tree rules | |||
| 3 | settle | participle | Knud not said here | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | conflict | Knud | nom conflict «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Frankfurt
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Frankfurt | frankfurt | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The old town of Heidelberg by the river
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 town | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 town | amod |
| 3 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Heidelberg | case |
| 5 | Heidelberg | Heidelberg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 town | nmod |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 river | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 river | det |
| 8 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 town | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Nuremberg
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nuremberg | Nuremberg | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The large city of Hamburg by the sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 city | det |
| 2 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 city | amod |
| 3 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Hamburg | case |
| 5 | Hamburg | Hamburg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 city | nmod |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 sea | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sea | det |
| 8 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 city | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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